mutjida: > Hello, > > > I have heard from a number of people that this behavior is not very > > newbie-friendly. I can see how that is true. I have an API revision > > coming anyway, so perhaps this is the time to referse the default > > laziness of HDBC calls (there would be a '-version of everything with > > laziness enabled, still). > > > > Thoughts? > > > I think this is a good idea. > > In general, I think effort should be made to remind people that lazy > IO operations break Haskell's type abstractions and can thus lead to > unexpected/dangerous behavior. >
More generally, I think it should be at least obvious how to get hold of a System.IO.Strict. We should provide that option (perhaps as part of the 'strict' package on hackage.haskell.org). -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
